Keitai Thumbnail Collection, Part II

The biggest downside to being in Japan before the smartphone revolution was that my phone's camera was absolute garbage, and I was living in a place where I constantly wanted to take photographs...and never seemed to have my digital camera with me. I was desperate enough to use my phone's camera on quite a few occasions!

Is it just me, or does the layout of Kansai
International Airport look remarkably
like a machine gun?

There's a cafe on the observation deck of the
World Trade Centre Osaka - went there for
a little creative writing once!

This hallway in the basement of JR Kyoto Station
stops at a dead end with a mirrored wall

Nobody does giant parfaits like Osaka!

Detective Conan fans can be happy at Tsutaya

Beautiful kotatsu at LOFT. I still regret not
buying the blanket on the right

This fountain is in an underground passage in Umeda.
It's not a busy area at all - Osaka is full of surprises like that

View from my room at the Kansai Language Institute 

A reflecting pool at the Kansai Language Institute

The back of the "Tower of the Sun" from
Expo 1970 at Banpaku-koen

Shinsengumi version of Colonel Sanders

Ads at Tsutaya for the DS version of
Final Fantasy IV

Dragon Ball UFO catcher machine

The original Nintendo building in Kyoto

The 'Lucky' cab in Kyoto! I saw it three times
during my stay. The rest of the cabs operated
by this company have three-leaf clovers